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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.

Dallas Willard

Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Attention Form God Spiritual
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
DALLAS WILLARD

Built God Habitat Live Natural
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Clever God Thinking Way
The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Children Parents Relationship Separate
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
DALLAS WILLARD

Basis Care Nation Understand
A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
DALLAS WILLARD

Answer Believe Right True
Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
DALLAS WILLARD

Easy Myself Obedience Way

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.

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